Apple sucks!

[Bitmap Frogs]

Soleron said:

Bitmap Frogs said:

Soleron said:
Mac OS X has all the disadvantages of not being Windows (doesn't run most games, for example) but few of the advantages of Linux (doesn't have a packaging system, not free, hardware tie-in, lack of good Java support, forced to use Objective-C, lack of kernel flexibility, lack of hardware support vs. Linux).

 

Hey, if it isn't mr. ubuntu-avatar weighting in on OS talk. Aren't your betas frying hardware these days?

 

My points ARE valid criticism of the Mac, which is permitted. You are referring to a single incident out of the millions of lines of code that make up a Linux distribution, which was fixed rapidly before being put on any production systems and affected one driver for a little-used piece of hardware. Remember that a bug in "Linux" like that would be equivalent to a bug in ANY driver on a Windows system, since on Windows drivers are made by hardware developers and released separately, whereas on Linux all drivers are included with the kernel. I imagine that at least one Windows driver in the entire history of Windows has damaged a piece of hardware, right? The difference between buggy Linux development versions and buggy Windows development versions is that you don't even have ACCESS to pre-release builds.

 

Yep, that's what happens with open-source, user-tested software - buggy software available to everybody and computers get fried. Unlike beta-testers backed by corporations, the final users that got their laptop BBQ'd by ubuntu won't get a refund.